Background
Lawton was born on December 11, 1927 in Long Beach, California.
Lawton was born on December 11, 1927 in Long Beach, California.
University of California, Berkeley.
One of them,: a Desert Manhunt, was made into a movie in 1969, by the title Tell Them Is Here, starring Robert Redford. He enrolled at University of California, Berkeley after high school. There he wrote for the college newspapers and magazines.
Lawton opened the Haunted Bookstore in Berkeley, which specialized in rare Western Americana.
He was also a reporter, and while working at The Press-Enterprise, he heard about the Last Great Manhunt of the Old West. Although the couple were madly in love, the marriage is forbidden by Carlota"s father, Old Mike, the tribe"s shaman.
Desperate, kills Old Mike and runs away with Carlota into the California Desert. In the end, Carlota is shot to death and commits suicide.
lieutenant was precisely based on interviews and research the author did on the Morongo Indian Reservation during three years before the publishing of the book
